Today, as Dutch chipmaker NXP is holding its annual shareholder meeting, the GoodElectronics Networks publishes a report about NXP’s conflicts with local trade unions in 2014. The year was characterized by major labour disputes, strikes and international solidarity…
In a conversation with SOMO and the GoodElectronics Network at the annual shareholder meeting in Amsterdam, NXP has offered to meet with the NXP Manufacturing Workers’ Union in Thailand to discuss the issues that were…
IndustriALL’s fifth edition of Global Worker is out with a fresh new look. The magazine includes a new set of features, interviews and profiles on a range of different topics from a workers’ perspective.IndustriALL’s fifth…
It’s official! Fairphone is now a Certified B Corporation. With this new certification, Fairphone has joined a community of over 1,000 companies that have also been certified to show that they are using their businesses…
EU importers of tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold for manufacturing consumer goods need to be certified by the EU to ensure that they do not fuel conflicts and human rights abuses in conflict areas, say…
Two South-Korean Samsung workers got seriously ill while working on the semiconductor assembly line. After applying for medical care benefit, Samsung decided to disapprove their applications, saying that it could not recognise a proximate causal…
The internet is rapidly working its way into nearly every aspect of the modern economy. Long unshackled from our web browser, we now find the internet at every turn, and ready to play a bigger…